I originally intended to create a cinemagraph of a bike with only its tires spinning. The inspiration came to me while I was at Piedmont Park the other day and I decided to shoot the footage right away, assuming all would work out. I had not yet seen the Lynda tutorial, however, which prevented me …
Ball in Perpetuity
The original idea behind “Ball in Perpetuity” was to spin a ball on my finger and then turn that into a GIF, since I can’t spin a ball on my finger for longer than like 1-2 seconds. I had fun filming it, but I ran into a number of problems while actually making the cinema-graph […]
Whirlpool Cinemagraph
In creating this cinemagraph, I knew I wanted to do something with water. From the ones that I browsed through, I thought the ones that had water elements looked the most interesting because of the stark contrast between the fluidity of liquid and the motionless background. So, I had my friend create a tornado in his water bottle, and I recorded him. I then imported this video file into Photoshop to edit. I actually had great difficulty with photoshop because…
Running Water
I used photoshop to make the cinemegraph shown above. First, a friend recorded me watering plants in front of the Woodruff Library at Emory University. A few takes were required to get the water to pour at the right speed. I wanted the water pouring fast enough to see it moving, but slow enough that it …
I Tried to Make A Cinemagraph, I Swear
I really tried to make a cinemagraph in Photoshop. When that didn’t work, I tried really hard to make a gif in Photoshop. I think the main root of most of my problems lies in the fact that I have absolutely no idea how to use Photoshop. Regardless, I resorted to giphy.com to create …
Cinemagraph
I really enjoyed doing this assignment since I decided to make a cinemagraph with the best scene of a film starring Leslie Cheung, one of my favorite actor who committed suicide on April 1, 2003. Leaving the world and all who love him, Leslie had remained numerous classic films he starred, which record his unsurpassable performances. The clip I used in this cinemagraph is from Happy Together (春光乍泄), a 1997 Hong Kong romance film directed by Wong Kar-wai, and starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. This smoking scene of Leslie is always praised as the most handsome smoking scene in Chinese films. By making a cinemagraph of …
Book GIF
This GIF was designed to be rather mesmerizing. The repeating nature of the GIF allows you to get lost in the turning of the pages which is a really cool feeling. One thing that is really interesting about the GIF is the colors of the book. Since the pages are moving so quickly, the words …
Waterfall Cinemegraph
I decided to try my hand at creating a cinemegraph via photoshop. Going into this sketch assignment I was almost positive I wouldn’t be able to complete this assignment, as my artistic skillset and knowledge of photoshop was limited. However, I found that the Lynda tutorials were highly informative and this was one of the …
Sketch 9: Cinemagraph
For this sketch assignment, I decided to create a cinemagraph of a tennis ball bouncing because I wanted to highlight the actual bounce of a ball. I wanted to show this bounce because whenever I play tennis, I have to bounce the ball right before I serve. This one motion of the ball bouncing is […]